Defining Futile and Potentially Inappropriate Interventions: A Policy Statement From the Society of Critical Care Medicine Ethics Committee.

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Published in Crit Care Med on September 01, 2016

Authors

Alexander A Kon1, Eric K Shepard, Nneka O Sederstrom, Sandra M Swoboda, Mary Faith Marshall, Barbara Birriel, Fred Rincon

Author Affiliations

1: 1Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Healthcare Ethics, Naval Medical Center San Diego and University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA.2Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.3Center for Ethics, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.4Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing, Baltimore, MD.5Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA.6Pennsylvania State University College of Nursing, Hershey, PA.7Department of Neurological Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.

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